New York Should Rapidly Expand Absentee Voting for Coming Elections
New York State has a serious limitation on voting by mail. The State Constitution requires a ” cause ” toContinue Reading
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New York Should Rapidly Expand Absentee Voting for Coming Elections
New York State has a serious limitation on voting by mail. The State Constitution requires a ” cause ” toContinue Reading
What’s Missing from the Big New Voting and Campaign Reforms in New York ? Public Financing of Elections
The New York State Legislature, Governor Cuomo, reformers, advocates, and plenty of ordinary citizens are justly celebrating the passage andContinue Reading
Democrats Came Within Inches of Wins in four other key New York Races; NYC Share of Statewide Vote Surged From ’14
The New York State Board of Elections certified final election results for November 6th this past Friday, Dec. 14th (Continue Reading
New York Democrats Won Big on Election Night, But Many Legislative Wins Were Razor-Thin
The slumbering Democratic midterm electorate awakened this year, in both New York and the nation. Across the country, the sumContinue Reading
Siena’s Assumptions about the Statewide Vote in New York Nov.6
Here are the assumptions behind Siena’s Poll that Cuomo leads Molinaro 49-36 in the gubernatorial election tomorrow. 59% of theContinue Reading
New York and New Jersey House Races Factor into the National MidTerm Picture
New York and New Jersey competitive House races are battleground districts in the midterms next week. Here’s a straight-no-chaser articleContinue Reading
Surging Voter Turnout in New York City May Mean Greater Importance in State Elections
There was an extraordinary turnout in the just-completed statewide Democratic primaries on Thursday,September 13. In the City alone, 855,000 DemocratsContinue Reading
MAKING VOTING EASIER – AND SOME OF THE ROADBLOCKS ALONG THE WAY
The Albany Times-Union advocated a number of remedies to New York’s laws to increase voting participation in the State andContinue Reading
The Coming Election for Governor and the Economy in Upstate New York
The health of the Upstate New York economy will be a major issue in the coming election for Governor ofContinue Reading